The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide

by Arvarh E. Strickland, Robert E. Weems Jr.

Overview

Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of increasing numbers of titles on African American life and history. This volume provides a comprehensive bibliographical and analytical guide to this growing body of literature as well as an analysis of how the study of African Americans has changed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313298387
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Arvarh E. Strickland is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri—Columbia. His recent publications include Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928-1933 (1989) and Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson: A Diary, 1930-1933 (1996).

Robert E.Weems, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of Missouri—Columbia. He is the author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 (1996) and Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface
African American Migration and Urbanization by Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr.
The African American Worker in Slavery and Freedom by Joe William Trotter, Jr.
African American Families: Historically Resilient by Aaron Thompson
African American Women by Wilma King
The African American Educational Experience by Carolyn A. Dorsey
The African American Literary Tradition by Clenora Hudson-Weems
The African American Musical Experience by John A. Taylor
African American Intellectual/Political Thought by Robert L. Harris, Jr.
The African American Political Experience by Sharon D. Wright and Minion K.C. Morrison
The African American Press by Julius E. Thompson
African Americans in the Military of the United States by John F. Marszalek and Horace D. Nash
The African American Athletic Experience by David K. Wiggins
Constructing an Historiography of African American Business by Juliet E. K. Walker
Sexuality and Race by Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.
African American Consumerism by Robert E. Weems, Jr.
The Civil Rights Movement by John Dittmer
African American Religion in the United States by Charles H. Long

Editorial Reviews

A guide to the growing body of sources on the African American experience. Contributors from the fields of history, literature, religion, political science, music, and religion spotlight the historiographical trends associated with the evolving study of American life and history, and present lists of key books and articles. Material is in sections on areas such as migration and urbanization, families, women, education, intellectual and political thought, the press, athletics, and sexuality. The editors are affiliated with the University of Missouri-Columbia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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